Tosylates alkylation

Recent progress of basic and application studies in chitin chemistry was reviewed by Kurita (2001) with emphasis on the controlled modification reactions for the preparation of chitin derivatives. The reactions discussed include hydrolysis of main chain, deacetylation, acylation, M-phthaloylation, tosylation, alkylation, Schiff base formation, reductive alkylation, 0-carboxymethylation, N-carboxyalkylation, silylation, and graft copolymerization. For conducting modification reactions in a facile and controlled manner, some soluble chitin derivatives are convenient. Among soluble precursors, N-phthaloyl chitosan is particularly useful and made possible a series of regioselective and quantitative substitutions that was otherwise difficult. One of the important achievements based on this organosoluble precursor is the synthesis of nonnatural branched polysaccharides that have sugar branches at a specific site of the linear chitin or chitosan backbone [89]. 

Let us look at another example of solvolysis. A very commonly studied system is one in which the solvent is acetic acid (HOAc) and the substrates are alkyl esters of sulfonic acids ROTs, alkyl tosylates (alkyl p-toluenesulfonates) ROBs, alkyl... 

Wardani and Lhomme (93TL6411) reported two routes for the synthesis of 10-aminobenzo[h][l,7]phenanthroline 64 from 3,6-diaminoacridine (proflavine) 58. In first route the proflavine 58 was monoacylated to give 59. Activation of the free amino group was achieved by tosylation. Alkylation of the monoacetyl monotosyl proflavine 60 with 3-bromopropionaldehyde ethylene acetal gave the intermediate 61. Acidic treatment afforded 10-aminobenzo[h][l,7]phenanthroline 64 in an 18% overall yield starting from... 

Benzenesulfonamide, Ar,AT-dibromo-4-methyl-(TsNBr2) bromohydrination with, 287 Benzenesulfonamides reductive cleavage, 247 synthesis of drugs, 301, 307-308 Benzenesulfonic acids. See Sulfonic acids Benzenesulfonic acid, 4-methyl-, esters (tosylates) alkyl a-synthons, 16, 24, 47, 93 fragmentation of, 89 rearrangement of, 32 reductive cleavage of, 114, 202-203 —, 4-methyl-, hydrazide (tosylhydrazine) hydrazones of fragmentation, 89 reduction, 109... 

Scheme 14.40 Ni-catalysed reaction of AT-tosyl alkyl aziridines with alkylzinc...

The quatemization of the nitrogen atom of the thiazole ring (the Menschutkin s reaction) by alkyl halide or methyl tosylate can be used to measure the reactivity of this atom and thus to evaluate steric and electronic effects of ring substituents. 

Sulfonate esters are subject to the same limitations as alkyl halides Competition from elimination needs to be considered when planning a functional group transforma tion that requires an anionic nucleophile because tosylates undergo elimination reactions just as alkyl halides do... 

An advantage that sulfonate esters have over alkyl halides is that their prepara tion from alcohols does not involve any of the bonds to carbon The alcohol oxygen becomes the oxygen that connects the alkyl group to the sulfonyl group Thus the configuration of a sulfonate ester is exactly the same as that of the alcohol from which It was prepared If we wish to study the stereochemistry of nucleophilic substitution m an optically active substrate for example we know that a tosylate ester will have the same configuration and the same optical purity as the alcohol from which it was prepared... 

Section 8 14 Nucleophilic substitution can occur with leaving groups other than halide Alkyl p toluenesulfonates (tosylates) which are prepared from alcohols by reaction with p toulenesulfonyl chloride are often used... 

The most frequentiy used halo alkylating agents are aldehydes and hydrogen haUdes, haloalkyl ethers, haloalkyl sulfides, acetals and hydrogen haUdes, di- and polyhaloalkanes, haloalkenes, haloalcohols, haloalkyl sulfates, haloalkyl -tosylates, and miscellaneous further haloalkyl esters. Haloalkylations include halomethylation, haloethylation, and miscellaneous higher haloalkylations. Under specific conditions, bis- and polyhaloalkylation can also be achieved. 

The total syntheses have yielded cobyric acid and thence cyanocobalamin. Routes to other cobalamins, eg, methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin, are known (76—79). One approach to such compounds involves the oxidative addition of the appropriate alkyl haUde (eg, CH I to give methylcobalamin) or tosylate (eg, 5 -A-tosyladenosine to yield adenosylcobalamine) to cobalt(I)alamine. 

N-Alkylations, especially of oxo-di- and tetra-hydro derivatives, e.g. (28)->(29), have been carried out readily using a variety of reagents such as (usual) alkyl halide/alkali, alkyl sulfate/alkali, alkyl halide, tosylate or sulfate/NaH, trialkyloxonium fluoroborate and other Meerwein-type reagents, alcohols/DCCI, diazoalkanes, alkyl carbonates, oxalates or malon-ates, oxosulfonium ylides, DMF dimethyl acetal, and triethyl orthoformate/AcjO. Also used have been alkyl halide/lithium diisopropylamide and in one case benzyl chloride on the thallium derivative. In neutral conditions 8-alkylation is observed and preparation of some 8-nucleosides has also been reported (78JOC828, 77JOC997, 72JOC3975, 72JOC3980). 

Electrophilic attack at oxygen is rare, alkylation normally occurring at nitrogen, but the 6-hydroxypyrido[2,3- f]pyrimidine (75) is methylated on oxygen in low yield (70CB1250), whilst the 6-cyano derivative (76) undergoes O-tosylation to (77) (75JHC311). 

The preparation of esters can be classified into two main categories (1) carboxy-late activation with a good leaving group and (2) nucleophilic displacement of a caiboxylate on an alkyl halide or sulfonate. The latter approach is generally not suitable for the preparation of esters if the halide or tosylate is sterically hindered, but there has been some success with simple secondaiy halides and tosylates (ROTs, DMF, K2CO3, 69-93% yield). ... 

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